Saint Scuithin's Catholic Church — Castlewarren

Detached six-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1830, on a cruciform plan comprising four-bay double-height nave with single-bay two-stage engaged tower to north-west on a circular plan, single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to east, single-bay double-height transept to west, single-bay (two-bay deep) double height transept to east, and single-bay double-height chancel to south having single-bay single-storey lean-to flanking bays. Extensively renovated, post-1973. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan (octagonal roof to tower; gabled to porch; lean-to to flanking bays) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone gabled bellcote to gable to transept to south on unpainted rendered tapered breast (with round-headed aperture on cut-limestone stringcourse having cast-iron bell, and cut-limestone coping having cross finial to apex), cut-limestone chamfered coping to gable to porch having cross finial to apex, rendered bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted replacement rendered walls, post-1973, with slight batter to tower having cut-limestone stringcourse. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone sills, and fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels (Y-mullion to chancel forming bipartite pointed-arch arrangement with fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels). Square-headed door openings (including to tower) with tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Full-height interior reordered, post-1973, with timber pews, carved timber Gothic-style stations, and replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled altar fittings, post-1973. Set back from road in own grounds with unpainted rendered boundary wall to perimeter of site having cut-limestone coping supporting wrought iron railings, limestone ashlar piers having profiled cut-limestone capping, wrought iron double gates, wrought iron flanking pedestrian gates, and limestone ashlar outer piers having profiled cut-limestone capping. (ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1830-present.